“Colonial Refractions: Xiamen as a Transnational
Landscape,” in Reassessing Asia in the
Light of Urban and Architectural History, ed. Executive Committee of the
International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, 177-187. Kyoto:
Kyoto University, 2006.

“Re-ImaginingChina: Xiamen, Overseas Chinese, and a Transnational Modernity,” in Materializing Modernity: Changes in Everyday
Life in Twentieth Century China, eds.Yue Dong and Joshua Goldstein,
156-194. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006.

“New Ports: The Zheng He Voyages and
Economic/Political Development in the South China Sea, 1403-1687,” in Zheng He yuanhang yu shijie wenming (郑和远航与世界文明， The Zheng
He Voyages and World Culture), ed. Wang Tianyou, Yu Rui, and Wan Ming, 456-467.
Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005.

Review of Hsu, Madeline, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism
and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. In the Journal
of Asian Studies, July 2004.

Review of The
Last Half Century of the Chinese Overseas. Edited by Elizabeth Sinn. In Journal
of World History 11 (October 2000), pp.123-125.

“Concrete
Transnationalism: Urban Development and Identity within Hokkien China,”
presented at the Asian Crossings,
1789-1914 conference sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and
the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 2012.

“Water
and Woodsheds: Minority Peoples and Natural Resources Management in Northwest
China, 1890-1978,” presented at the Asian Studies Development Program 18th National Conference, Seattle WA, March 2012

“Salar-Tibetan
Relations in southern Qinghai,” presented at the Western Conference of the
Association of Asian Studies, Pomona College, Pomona, CA, June 2011.

“Water
and Minority Relations under the People’s Republic,” presented at the Asian
Studies Development Program 17th National Conference, Boston, MA,
March 2011.

“Xiamen
as a Transnational Revolution,” presented at the Conference on Sun Yat-sen,
Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, National
University of Singapore, Singapore, October 2010.

“Redrawing
Pastoral-Agricultural Boundaries: PRC Agricultural and Development Policies in
Qinghai” presented at the Asian Studies Development Program 16th National Conference, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI, June 2009.

“Desertification
in China’s Kuwait: Yulin and the Environment,” invited paper presented at the Opening and Reform in Northwest China conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence,
KS, April 2009.

“Great
Western Desertification: Reform and Environment in Northwest China,” presented
at the National Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, IL,
March 2009

“Xinjiang
in the Development of China’s West,” presented at Shaanxi Normal University,
invited lecture, December 2008.

“A
History of Western Development,” presented at the Assessment
of Western China Development and Future Prospects Conference, Northwestern
University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, July 2008.

“China’s ‘Western Development’ in Historical
Perspective,” presented at the China’s Great Western Development: Evaluations
and Perspectives on China’s Most Sweeping Development Initiative Conference at
the University of Southern California, October 2007.

“Colonial Refractions: Xiamen as a Transnational
Landscape,” presented at the International Conference on East Asian
Architectural Culture, Kyoto University, November 2006.

“Rethinking ‘China’: Overseas Chinese and China’s
Modernity,” presented at the Visualizing
the Chinese Past: Memory, Image, and History in China, 1700- Present conference, University of California, San Diego, May 2005.

“Remaking Chang’an: Urbanization and Development in
20th Century Xi’an,” presented at the Western Conference of the
Association of Asian Studies 2004 Conference, University of Washington, October
2004.

Grants Funded

Early Modern Japan and the
Pacific World,
Institutional Project Support Program in Japanese Studies, Japan Foundation for
$92,000.

Negotiations and Impacts: Great Western
Development, Rural Peasants, and Water Policy across China’s Loess Plateau, National Science Foundation Research
Experience for Undergraduates Grant for $403,000.

“Infusing Southeast Asia into the Secondary School
Curriculum of Washington State.” Grant funded by the U.S. Department of
Education, Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program for $98,094.00.

“Water and Development in Northwest China.” Grant
funded by the Casten Family Foundation for $4,261.00 to finance research on the
impact of water allocation polices on development in rural Shaanxi province,
China.

“Modern Chinese Language.” Grant funded by the Casten Family Foundation
to fund a full-time position in Mandarin at Central Washington University. Total funding is $90,000 over three years.

“Society and Environment in South China.” Proposal funded by National Science
Foundation to establish a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program
in China for 2002-2005. Research
conducted at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Xiamen University. Total funding from NSF is $326,000. CWU funding is estimated at $250,000.

“Humankind and Environment in South China.” Proposal funded for $22,500 by the Alice and
Leslie E. Lancy Foundation and the National Conferences on Undergraduate
Research to support undergraduate research into environmental stability in
southern China.

“China in the 21st Century.” Organized and authored funding proposal for a
lecture series funded by the Central Washington University Faculty Development
Program.

“Sustainability in Urban China: Environment,
Pollution, and Society in 21st Century Beijing.” Authored proposal that was funded for over
$80,000 by the Alice and Leslie E. Lancy Foundation, National Conferences on
Undergraduate Research, and Central Washington University to support
undergraduate research into environmental stability in China. Program conducted by Central Washington
University, National Jiaotong University, and the East-West Center, University
of Hawaii in summer 2001.

College of Arts and Humanities Travel Award, Central
Washington University, December 2000.

Summer Creativity Grant, College of Arts and
Humanities, Central Washington University, June 1999.

Small Grants Award, “Bridges to Modernity,” College
of Graduate Studies, Central Washington University, June 1999.

Professional
Affiliations

Member, American Historical Association, Association
for Asian Studies, Mid-Atlantic Conference of the Association for Asian
Studies, Historical Society for Twentieth Century China, International Society
for the Study of the Chinese Overseas.